Comparative analysis of five XML query languages

  • Authors:
  • Angela Bonifati;Stefano Ceri

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 1-20133 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 1-20133 Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

XML is becoming the most relevant new standard for data representation and exchange on the WWW. Novel languages for extracting and restructuring the XML content have been proposed, some in the tradition of database query languages (i.e. SQL, OQL), others more closely inspired by XML. No standard for XML query language has yet been decided, but the discussion is ongoing within the World Wide Web Consortium and within many academic institutions and Internet-related major companies. We present a comparison of five, representative query languages for XML, highlighting their common features and differences.